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Who
are Punjabis ? - Our Present, Past and Future as a Community
Punjabis are at the forefront of
India - in every single sphere of life.
We have had one Punjabi President, One Punjabi Prime Minister and
now the Vice President of Indian Republic is a
Punjabi.
Illustrious and brave Punjabis have shown their skills, style and
ingenious quality on every single area of work - wherever they are
involved.
Punjabis are in fact, the top most and most
emancipated community of
India and we together have influenced India's overall life in many
ways.
Punjabis dominate the states of Punjab, Himachal, Haryana, Delhi and
many principal metropolitan areas.
Punjabis form the most qualitative structure of Indian industry,
lead the agricultural production and are born leaders in many other
areas of life. Punjabis also play an important role in Indian
defense, the top ranking military strategists are Punjabis.
The chief Spokesman of Indian Military is Mr. Bikram Singh. The
Chief of election commission who controls and manages the elections
of the largest democracy in the world is Dr. M S Gill.
Some of the topmost Jurists, Judges, Ministers, Top Government
administrators of India are Punjabis. The Indian Film, Entertainment
and Television content, Journalism, Mass media is led by Punjabis.
Some of the leading basic industries are led by Punjabis.
It's so silly to suggest that Punjabis are merely an agricultural
community. Well that was long time ago.
Today Punjabi community in India leads as top professionals and
almost all service sectors of any discipline.
Punjabis also migrated in great numbers in last 120 years to far off
lands and contributed with their talent, hardwork and compassion.
Today Punjabis live in all corners of the world and continually grow
and our people stand top in the world in any field you name.
Dearest friends, We, as one of the oldest civilizations of the
world, must feel proud to be Punjabis and think of ways to help
others of our community and to bring all members as close as we can.
There are too many obstacles and too many difficulties which lie
ahead but we together can face them and help lead our community and
our country high in the world.
India looks for Punjabis help and contribution to its
multi-dimensional progress in all spheres.
We have to be strong and one to eradicate the evils of our society,
the poverty of every single person and make our lives worthwhile.
We should be proud of our culture, customs and noble heritage.
Punjabis have always made their way out of nothing and they have
survived all onslaughts and attempts to break our will and strength.
We are clean hearted, open, simple and honest people with something
special in our genes and we should try to dig out for our roots and
once you do you will find that we are all connected somewhere
intertwined like tissues and nerves.
Punjabis also sacrificed the most in the struggles to free ourselves
from foreigners and their undue domination in past 1000 years.
Punjabis were at the forefront and our brave brothers and
forefathers gave their lives to save our lives and today we survive
and kicking around for their enormous sacrifice and leadership.
India's freedom struggle was led by Punjabis although we never got
any credit for this but we are the people who have suffered the
most. Who can forget the sacrifices of our brave heroes like Guru
Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind Singh, Banda Bahadur, Hari Singh Nalwa,
Shahid Bhagat Singh, Lala Lajpat Rai, Rajguru, and so many other
lesser known but equally brave and incredible personalities. Who can
forget the great upheavals of partition of Punjab and in this whole
episode of 1947 drama, we were the worst losers. Atleast 30% of our
people had to re-start their lives from scratch and many lost their
loved ones. But no human or manmade force so far broken our spirit,
our strength and our will to survive.
Punjabis have risen from the ashes like phoenix and we will continue
to rise.
Past 25 years have had a very damaging and very serious blow on our
cultural fabric and the blood stains of the barbarism of some
political goondas are dry but not erased.
People who have lived abroad or are not familiar with genuine
realities should try to visit India and see for themselves where we
stand today.
Friends, there is no time for self-pity and suffering as we need to
see how can we go ahead and protect ourselves from future onslaughts
and attempts to break our closeknit communities.
We should discuss here every aspect of life but our focus is on the
state of Punjabi Community in India in past and potential in future.
I
am proud to be a Punjabi and I love my culture, my community and
my dear friends.
In my family we have no absolutely no difference between one faith
or another and we consider ourselves only Punjabis and that is our
pehchan, our identification and our basis where we stand.
If someone is born in a Sikh family he has to respect all others
irrespective of their caste, creed and color, and if someone is born
in a Hindu family he has to respect all others but have very special
respect for all our Sikh brothers and sisters. We have to defend
each other as nobody else is going to defend us nor interested in
our problems.
In my personal experiences and dealings I have seen that Hindus and
Sikhs love each other very much and we have to recognize the cruel
people who have attempted to separate us, to break our inseparable
fabric made of love and compassion.
We have to discuss and find out the reasons of our anger, our state,
our problems and our future.
None else but we Punjabis can understand the pain of other Punjabis.
Source: Hindustan.net
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